JumpStart is a series of educational games produced by Knowledge Adventure. The series is distributed as Jump Ahead in the United Kingdom.
Games in the JumpStart series are designed for a variety of ages, from infancy through preadolescence. The games combine adventure, puzzles, and problem-solving, and typically feature a printable progress report. In general, JumpStart games designed for younger children are more common/plentiful than ones for ...
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JumpStart is a series of educational games produced by Knowledge Adventure. The series is distributed as Jump Ahead in the United Kingdom.
Games in the JumpStart series are designed for a variety of ages, from infancy through preadolescence. The games combine adventure, puzzles, and problem-solving, and typically feature a printable progress report. In general, JumpStart games designed for younger children are more common/plentiful than ones for older children and tend to include more activities than those for older children.
As in the Learning Company's Reader Rabbit/The ClueFinders series, there is a clear divide between the products for second and third grade. The games for second grade and under typically feature anthropomorphic animals in bright, colorful settings, while the games for third grade and over feature principally human characters, with a villainous character who must be thwarted, in considerably less colorful settings. Though the divide is quite evident, there is some...
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